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If you consider yourself an old timer at 6 years o' web use then im practically ancient.
I also do not agree with your sentiment but opinions are opinions
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-on tumblr: i hate how all the meme shit is spread out and overused by people, and then it spreads to real life... i appreciate the website: i use it for blogging too, reblogging nice pictures, kpop, etc, but the meme shit has gone too far -____-
-on growing up on forums: i did, and i still keep up with friends i made on them. one of them suggested I apply to the college i'm attending in the fall, in fact. i mean i wouldnt say im an 'old timer' in the grand scheme of things, but withing my little sphere and the websites i frequent, im definitely a veteran. TL excluded...
-on creation of memes: even the word meme is twisted. i didnt even think about the fact that those stories that made going to a forum worthwhile were memes.
i skipped the q/a
overall i really agree with you, and i agree with moot here. thanks for bringing it up
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Canada5155 Posts
The internet was better before people called things memes. At least then, the obvious and incessant repetition of the same content wasn't so obvious and thus didn't feel incessant.
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I've always been pretty annoyed by the way that the word "meme" has come to mean shitty images copied again and again.
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There was a pic in my newspaper of a guy holding a sigh with Rick Perry on it and it said. "The derp is strong with this one." Made me laugh a little bit.
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People not knowing how to pronounce 'meme' correctly is almost as funny as those who make frequent reference to them IRL.
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Canada13425 Posts
The days when the dancing baby gif was just the dancing baby and no one made gif sounds, or added random text to it.
Those were good days, I laughed and enjoyed that gif so much.
Also, when Numa Numa first showed up on newgrounds and was a compressed flash video presentation not in youtube. Crazy crazy memories.
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Memes are for children to enjoy and for adults to ignore.
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le epic Troll OP XD
True Story.
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On May 14 2012 10:38 HawaiianPig wrote:The internet was better before people called things memes. At least then, the obvious and incessant repetition of the same content wasn't so obvious and thus didn't feel incessant.
Oh how I remember this. I mean, how did such things spread around the world without reddit or any meme-sites? I got Internet access in 1997, after begging my parents to get it because it would be "so useful" (though from today's point of view, I can't really recall any then valid arguments in support of that claim). Basically all you did then was hop into any chatroom and try to flirt, or use fireball / yahoo to find useful stuff to save time when doing homework.
I agree on the matter that repetitiveness is really tiring from time to time. How many times have you seen *les ragefaces* doing the same stuff over and over...
But still, creativity leads to new "memes" all the time. So while repetition indeed is boring, just because it's now called "memes" doesn't eliminate all original content.
I come to think that the old stuff may also seem more creative because there just wasn't an abundance of it.
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